Volume 1 The New Guest in the City Chapter 17 Don't Give Up Hope

In a busy and cold city, there are two homeless girls.

They are a pair of sisters, and the older sister is more psychologically mature and knows more than the younger sister, but she is also very pessimistic because of this. And my sister is very naΓ―ve, although she is my sister's "personal bodyguard", but she is still a child's character, optimistic and straightforward.

Strange cities don't know them, and they don't know this city. I don't know why they came to this city, and they are not interested in knowing, only they understand.

At that time, the indifferent city turned a blind eye to them, after all, everyone did not know each other.

Ruthless? may not be exactly.

Because the city looks glamorous, but in fact it is busy and numb behind the scenes. They couldn't take in one more person, even a dog, a cat.

But they try to tell themselves that they will be redeemed one day. When people are less busy, when the world is less numb, they may be able to have a second home.

It's just that the road to that day is stretching, constantly stretching, seemingly endless, far away.

Finally, one day, my sister couldn't think about it for a while, and decided to let them go, and thought that this was the best way out for them. She finally picked up the rusty fruit knife that had been turned over from the garbage heap and walked over to her sleeping sister.

Her steps were like that of a puppet, a puppet manipulated by despair, stiff and eerie. The dim moonlight blurred her face, but it cleared her sister's innocent face.

In the dark, the slightly rusted knife still shone brightly. She raised the knife and touched her sister's soft face, tears streaming down without warning.

She was desperate, she couldn't see the way forward, how could two helpless shells left in this world live.

"Sister...... No...... Lost hope......"

The childish voice echoed in her ears, and her sister gently grabbed her hand, and the kitten was attached to her hand.

β€œ...... Still want to ...... ...... with my sister."

A smile suddenly appeared on my sister's face, as warm as an angel.

β€œ...... Let's have fun playing games together......"

In an instant, innocent words flowed through her sister's body like an electric current, cutting the thread that despair bound for her and awakening her confused consciousness.

The weak, pitiful figure fell to its knees, still unable to cause a ripple in the silence of the night.

"I'm ......" my sister covered her face, but tears still flowed through the cracks, "what am I doing......"

On that day, the night was extremely quiet......

The spacious corridor, like an endless road ahead, brings inexplicable fear to the white-haired girl. She didn't know what was behind the road, but her instincts scared her.

Hopefully that intuition is wrong.

"Let's go inside. ”

The mayor of Black Lake City, who personally led the way, said that he would open the door of his office for her to show his sincerity, and such a high-ranking and powerful person did this, which made Nangong Yu even more panicked.

However, when she plucked up the courage to look the mayor in the eyes, she was immediately filled with trust in him.

When she looked into the mayor's eyes, she saw something that only she knew. Although he didn't know what she saw, the mayor understood the reason for her sudden change at the moment, and confirmed his own conjecture.

When she walked in and watched her try to relax, the mayor asked if she wanted to close the door.

"Guanguan...... Close the door...... ......" didn't expect to stammer as soon as she opened her mouth, and she immediately covered her mouth.

From closing the door to the time the two of them sat down and tossed for a long time, because she was too nervous and scared at this time, so she was very restrained. But the mayor was unhurried and did not get tired of her in the slightest, like a guest from afar.

"I should ...... Call you Nangong Yu, or ...... Bai Nanyu?" the mayor asked the first question after sitting down.

"White ...... Bai Nanyu ......"

Seeing that she kept her head down, the mayor calmly waited for her to take the initiative to raise her head to avoid putting too much pressure on her.

"When I met with you this time, I wanted to ask, what should I pay attention to when chatting with her?"

Shifting to a familiar dining table, the mayor was asking Boss Wu opposite.

Not long ago, the mayor met with Boss Wu again, after all, Boss Wu and Bai Nanyu had a good relationship, and he wanted to know her character.

The name "Bai Nanyu" is actually her real name, her surname is Bai, and her name is Nanyu. And the name "Nangong Yu" is a fake name that popped up in her mind when she tried to disguise herself, and it was transformed from the word "Nanyu".

Since she used a fake name, she has often used this name in front of people, because it will bring her a little comfort - Bai Nanyu, who committed heinous crimes, is dead, and it is Nangong Yu who is alive now.

Of course, this is a complete escape to make her comfortable.

And when someone mentions her real name, she thinks of the shadow she left in Guardian City, and wonders if that person knows about it, so she feels very scared.

Even if she once cried and told Boss Wu that the natural disaster was definitely not caused by her, she was the perpetrator and the victim.

Therefore, with her character, when strangers mention her real name and are a little hostile to her, she must be about to cry.

"That child, she actually has a very naughty personality, but because of the things she has experienced, she has become like this. Boss Wu sighed, "Every time I talk to her, I walk on thin ice, for fear of touching her heart." In the words of those young people, she was an angel, but her wings were shattered by the world. ”

Listening to Boss Wu's words, the mayor ...... No, it should be called Lao Yu in front of Boss Wu. He kept thinking about it, simulating in his mind what it would be like to talk to her.

He really cares about her, at first just because she is helpful and dangerous to the city, but the more he touches, the more he feels pity for her. As a father far away in another world, Lao Yu really wants to care about those poor people, especially after becoming the mayor.

Helping Bai Nanyu is not just to protect the city, but also to make her happy. A child like her shouldn't live in the mud, so he wanted to be a lotus leaf that lifted her out of the water.

This is what every adult should do.

"Mayor...... Actually, you don't need to worry so much......" a reluctant smile appeared on Bai Nanyu's face, "You want to help me, yes, but ...... This can really be a disaster for you. ”

"You can't do it alone, unless you're doing it for yourself. ”

The mayor's tone was very firm, Bai Nanyu looked into his eyes, and did not feel a trace of wavering in his heart. He had already made up his mind to help her, for no other reason than to think that he had met her by chance.

Maybe it's God's arrangement, Bai Nanyu can't escape.

"You've been secretly protecting the city, haven't you?" asked the mayor again, in a very kind tone.

Bai Nanyu didn't want to admit it, but finally nodded subconsciously.

"Can you tell me how you did that? What are you capable of...... It can't be an illusion, right?"

After listening to the mayor's words, Bai Nanyu raised his head suddenly, but the words that squeezed into his mouth finally swallowed. But after she swallowed this, she seemed a little relieved.

"Yes...... Ha...... It's not me who is hallucinating, it's something else inside me. ”

After that, Bai Nanyu's eyes seemed to be moving, and then they filled the eyes, making the black eyes exude a strange blood red.

"Free pseudo-lifeforms", a special lifeform of this world.

It's more like life, and it's more like ghosts, and they're commonly known as "nightmares". They have a lot of similarities to what people call "nightmares", which is why they are called nightmares.

They usually look like a black mist, but the black fog is not completely black, and some of them will show a grayish-blue color. They can sense people's brain waves to know exactly what others are thinking, and they can also type something into those people's brains that causes them to hallucinate.

Rumor has it that they know everything about a person and can make someone into a nightmare that they will never wake up. They can even possess someone else's body, manipulate someone's consciousness, and take control of someone's body - but in reality, they're not that scary, and they're not something that feeds on things like fear nightmares.

They are even like wild beasts in the wild, their black mist-like bodies that will figuratively kill their prey.

And such a thing has been attached to Bai Nanyu's body since a long time ago.

Even Boss Wu was taken aback the moment he learned about this matter, thinking that she was accidentally possessed by a nightmare, and worried that she would not be tortured because of this nightmare.

However, Bai Nanyu voluntarily let this nightmare possess her.

They are not as scary as people think, and some of them also have human emotions. is like this nightmare on Bai Nanyu's body, which is to ask Bai Nanyu to help it and promise to help her, so he can hide in Bai Nanyu.

The period before being possessed was the most painful period for Bai Nanyu.

At that time, Bai Nanyu had just escaped from the hands of the dead country. At that time, she was very desperate, because it was the people of Weidun City who handed her over to the dead country. She had nowhere else to go, not even the thought of crying.

Where else can I go? Is it the next city? Bai Nanyu asked himself, touched his long snow-white hair, and thought of his identity as a "white-haired person", and suddenly despaired.

She can't escape, maybe the only way out at the moment is death.

She looked at the sky, lowered her head again, and suddenly found herself in a cemetery. Perhaps, a lonely grave here will be her next home.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time. ”

A voice came from in front of a lonely grave, Bai Nanyu had no fear at the moment, just subconsciously trembled, and then looked over there. There, there was a black mist, and there were faint figures in the black mist.

After talking, they made a pact that only they knewβ€”Bai Nanyu promised to find someone for it, and it provided her with its own abilities to help her.

After that, Bai Nanyu changed his impression of the nightmare and found that this nightmare was particularly gentle, as if it had once been a gentle human. It told Bai Nanyu that it didn't want to see someone die, and it didn't want to see someone suffer. So it has been enlightening Bai Nanyu, and following her wishes, it helped her take a pseudonym.

Yes, the name "Nangong Yu" is the reason why it came to my mind.

"Don't give up hope, I'm sure the people of Guardian City won't be so cold-blooded and ruthless. They are also human beings and have hearts, and if you are willing to go back, you may see them in repentance. Maybe they'll thank you for going back. Nightmare told Bai Nanyu.

Under the nightmare words, Bai Nanyu gradually ignited hope, and was finally willing to return to Weidun City.

At this point, Bai Nanyu didn't continue, as if he didn't want to recall what happened after Weidun City. This made the mayor very confused, so he asked her if she had ruined Guardian City because the people of Guardian City had handed her over again, and she didn't want to recall those things.

Bai Nanyu shook his head.

After that, Bai Nanyu was silent and reluctant to say it, but she told the mayor that she just didn't want to say it now, and she was still hesitant to say it.

"It's okay, if you don't want to say it now, it's time for me to talk to you about something. Now, I'll show you something. ”

The mayor said and handed Bai Nanyu a note, the crooked handwriting hooked her heart the moment she saw it. Her eyes were wide open, her mouth was slightly open, and she seemed to gasp, and her whole person was stunned.

She knew the handwriting, it was her sister's handwriting, she had written it herself, and she couldn't be wrong.

"This is a note not long ago, which was transferred by multiple people, and the first person to make the move was a girl named Bai Nanqin. The mayor looked at Bai Nanyu, who was speechless in surprise, and then added, "She is the sister you have been looking for, we confirmed not long ago, she is now in the city, but she doesn't know where she is." ”

Bai Nanqin? She? Is she really alive? She also knows that I'm looking for her? Where is she? Bai Nanyu's mind was suddenly filled with countless words, and he couldn't calm down for a while.

However, a moment later, this sudden joy brought her a little more pain.

Judging by the look on her face, she was scared of something. The mayor was a little puzzled for a moment, until he noticed her long snow-white hair, and suddenly understood what her fear was for.

Maybe it will seem a little puzzled to others, why do you start to worry and be scared when you can find the sister you have been looking for for a long time. But in the eyes of some people in this world, including Boss Wu, it will be very sad, and her identity as a "white-haired person" has doomed her and her sister to a tragic end.

After being silent for a long time, Bai Nanyu finally chose to adjust his mood and continue to chat with the mayor.

"I just said I don't want to say it...... I regret it now, one of the reasons I don't want to say it is ......" Bai Nanyu let out a long sigh, "I thought I killed my sister......"